BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawal Victoria Hospital’s (BVH) emergency ward was provided 200 coronavirus testing kits by the health department on Tuesday.

The kits were supplied on the intervention of the health secretary after the hospital’s emergency ward ran out of them on Monday.

Quaid-i-Azam Medical College Principal Prof Dr Shafqat Ali Tabassum, who is also the chief executive officer of BVH, told Dawn that the health secretary took notice of news reports and expressed concern over the shortage of testing kits at the BVH.

Dr Tabassum further said that the department had now provided them 200 kits. Meanwhile, BVH emergency ward Director Dr Aamir Bokhari also confirmed receiving the kits.

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2021